On the morning of Thursday, July 18, 2019, officers in Jonesboro, Arkansas, were directed by a neighbor to an apartment on Melrose Street where they found two siblings fatally shot. The victims were 37-year-old Johnny Russell and his 38-year-old sister, Kafena Russell. Witnesses later said they heard sounds like gunshots around 11 p.m. the previous night, but no one called dispatch then and the bodies were not discovered until the following morning.

Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Division investigated the double homicide and an arrest was made; the suspect was held at the Craighead County Detention Center. The slayings were reported as the city’s fifth homicide that year. Is there anyone who knew Johnny or Kafena or who might have information about what happened that night?